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nineteen sensoria and several bristles, 6th imbricated and 

 with a group of smaller sensoria around the large one at 

 the apex of the basal portion. Proportions of segments 9, 

 7. 75. 63, 52 (15 + 50). Total length 4-2 mm. Abdomen with 

 five to seven black transverse dorsal blotches of irregular 

 shape which become smaller and less distinct on the posterior 

 segments, and with a row of black spots on each side. These 

 darkly marked areas bear a few short bristles. Cornicles 

 brownish green, long, slender, and cylindrical, expanding 

 slightly at the base, very faintly imbricated, and with a few 

 large transversely elongated reticulations at the extreme 

 apex. Length 0-72 mm. to 0-82 mm. Cauda yellowish 

 green with ten or eleven long bristles. Legs light brown, 

 with tarsi and apices of tibiae dark brown. 

 Length i-8 mm. to 2-6 mm. 



Genus Mj^zus, Passerini. 



Myziis pei^sicce, S\x\ztr = dianthi, Schrank. — This species 

 swarmed upon clover grown in muslin-covered pots used 

 for rearing Sitones (weevils), and, unless the pots were 

 fumigated, the clover ultimately died from the attack. 

 Apterous viviparous females were most abundant, but alate 

 viviparous females also occurred. 



An Uncommon Wrasse, Crenilabrus melops, from the 

 Coast of East Lothian. — On 27th May 1922 I received from 

 Mr J. J. Lamb, Aberlady, an example of this fish (the Connor, 

 Gilthead or Golden Maid) which had been captured in a salmon- 

 net there that morning. Its length to end of tail was 9I in., and 

 its depth from insertion of dorsal fin 3^ in. The colour was 

 a beautiful combination of orange and sea-green disposed in a 

 spotted pattern, the orange usually forming a broad margin to each 

 scale ; but even in the short time the fish took to reach me it had 

 evidently lost much of its brilliance. In 1909 I examined a similar 

 specimen caught in a salmon-net at Aberlady Bay on 28th May, and 

 ten years previous to that, namely on 17th June 1899, I found one 

 lying dead on the shore at North Berwick. The species would 

 seem to have been less rare in the Forth in Parnell's day than now. 

 — William Evans, Edinburgh. 



